The Rev. Jesse Jackson speaks to about 100 blacks and Democratic officeholders at the Washington Street Mission, a black community center. Jackson was in Dallas Friday, September 19, to urge his audience to re-elect President Carter. In a reference to the League of Women Voters’ discarded plan to put an empty chair in place of the president at the first debate, Jackson said given the choice of John Anderson and Ronald Reagan, he would support the empty chair.

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